#hyhtech

[hyhtechnology]

Netflix continues to steal share from DSTV

Observation: 70% of tech-savvy South Africans subscribe to Netflix. Only 30% of them also have DSTV and 50% claim they cancelled DSTV after subscribing to Netflix. This is validated by FNB confirming that South African’s spend on Netflix has doubled.

Why: This is no surprise with DSTV costing R900 pm for premium and data prices dropping

Source: MyBroadband Netflix survey among n= 1867 tech-savvy South Africans

Google Trends graph: Blue = DSTV, Red = Netflix

-CS

[hyhdigitaltrends]

YouTube on the Billboard charts

Observation: Billboard announced its plan to incorporate YouTube streams into their calculations.

Why: Taking effect as as of 3 January 2020, reason behind this move has been the dissatisfaction towards Google owned, Youtube from countless musicians out of the United States and United Kingdom who feel the platform is “built on the backs of free, stolen content,”

Future: Most people listen to music on Youtube as opposed to streaming platforms and so it is only right to recognise YouTube streams in the chart calculations.

-TM

[hyhnorms]

Resting Ball

Observation: A company in Seattle creates jewellery out crematory ashes by swirling them into in glass thus creating unique and beautiful designs in the process. The process only requires 1 tablespoon of ashes.

Why:  Ash jar or are slowly becoming a thing of the past and people are looking into different ways of keeping those who have passed close to them.

Future: These designs and jewellery could open a different and new market. Imagine buying a jewel piece that contains ashes of your favourite childhood actor or artist. 

-TM

[hyhtechnology]

Africa Rides

Observation: Moses Ngobeni, an electrical engineer built his childhood dream car from scratch.

Why: A sports car lover since a young child, Moses had a dream of building his own custom made car with all the influence he’d get from seeing such cars on Magazines and TV at the time. It took him 3 years to complete the build, salvaging parts from different cars and models

Future: Exposure to such possibilities would open up the world of technology and innovations to the rest of the world in what Africa can offer.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/RidiculousRides/videos/412663162772915/

-TM

[hyhhealth]

Young Blood

Observation: Ambrosia, a US based company charges $8000 to fill up your veins with young blood.

Why: Jesse Karmazin, Ambrosia’s founder a Stanford graduate is hoping filling up the veins of older people with the blood from young donors would help “conquer ageing by rejuvenating the body's organs...”

Future: With beauty industry promises of never ending youth, this procedure might change the way we look at what we consider “commodities” in this instance being our blood.

-TM

[hyhtechnology]

Singularity, Dating App

Observation: Aaron Smith, a 31 year old man from North Carolina creates a dating app where he is the only man available.

Why: After trying out numerous dating apps, Smith realised that his profile wasn't getting lots of interaction. He states, “The biggest problem with the other apps is that my face is not featured prominently...”

Future: The future belongs to those who believe in it, software development and coding is becoming a skill that everyone in the future will benefit from having.

- TM

[hyhtechnology]

They should build an app that ...

Observation: A new app coding education app has been launched called Grasshopper, which is considered one of the most intuitively designed products out there in the market.  Why: People believe that their app idea is genius and will make them tonnes of money, this is the app that can help you make that dream come true. Apps like these are vital to keeping up to date with technology and language. Coding will become an essential tool for a modern employee to have when entering the workspace and that knowledge will be incredibly valuable to them.  Future: People who are unable to code are going to be the illiterates of the future, as kids learn how to code in school and the older generations are going to fall behind dramatically. 

- BR

[hyhtechnology]

Google Stadia Pushes Boundaries

Observation: Google launched Stadia last week, which is their online 4K game streaming platform. This is a huge moment in gaming and could see off console-style gaming entirely, challenging the mighty Playstation and Xbox. 

Why: Hardware is so 1990′s and we are fast closing in on becoming a digital society where everything works online. Gaming as we have discovered is one of the most important economic and cultural phenomenons, so owning the online streaming space is vitally important to providers. The challenge lies in the providing perfect streaming gameplay with zero lag, a massive difficulty ... for now, but you know Elon is sending up those satellites!  Future: Console Gaming will die, meaning Microsoft and Sony are going to have to give some solid thought to their business models moving forward. 

- BR